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This is not just a priest thing but it does affect us and there's no general "healing" forum anyhow.

Here, first GC sez:



Then he sez:




I like this change for PVP, because my mind is strong, but my joints are weak, and I'd rather WoW be more mental than physical. I'm all for anything that's more a test of how well I know my class versus how close my reflexes are to those of a nubile nineteen-year-old raised on Mountain Dew and video games.

I think this sounds like it'll make healing more fun in PVE as well. I'd be interested to hear what you raiders think.

Discuss.

I think one of the fundemantal problems they have is that the mechanics for PvE and PvP are very different, but the tools are the same. In other words, it's hard for healing to be scaled to both raid PvE and PvP encounters. This is nothing new, I remember chatting with guildies about this problem back in vanilla wow.

I certainly don't have any answer, but I'd be happy if we moved away from burst damage. Wrath was the least enjoyable phase of WOW in terms of PvP healing for me. Arena amounted to pillar humping because of the burst. It's one thing not being able to kill oppponents as a healer, it's quite another to be barely able to survive 5 seconds of sustained attack.

I still think Blizzard have an impossible on their hands. Balancing the 3 specs of each classes so that they are all almost equally viable both in PvE and PvP is a near-impossible task.

But yeah, this change seems promising.

I wish Blizz would just break down and accept that different affects in PvP and PvE isn't the end of the world.

As for the PvE effect of greater health pools all around I feel it will shift balance more towards avoidance and mitigation over health. Efficiency in healing over spamming nonstop will also be nice.

Sounds interesting. I'm looking forward to some of the changes.

Re: Lolwell sucking ... well, duh. When you've got 95% of the people spec'd into a tree that do NOT take the talent ... that says something.

On a related note, I did see a priest the other day who was spec'd into it. And used it. Well, he placed it. After us DPS got over the laughter fits, we never so much as glanced at it again.

The funny thing about lolwell is that while I was halfway through that post I said in /g (quite literally):
"EUREKA!
Lightwell should be a passive buff healing people on low health with weak flash heals"
I then continued reading and noticed that's exactly what was suggested in the topic.

Nevertheless, I came up with a better idea lateron - what if it works like Guardian Spirit and increases the healing done to targets within X yards of it by 20%? It'd still be fire and forget, but at least it'd be a useful cooldown.

Pfff, they need to stop QQing. A talented 10 second lasting cooldown 'well' used for emergency group healing really isn't *that* much like one of four shaman totems that last multiple minutes and provide the entire raid with a static (mostly DPS) buff.

I have a question.

Does your target shift when you click Lolwell?

Because it doesn't when you eat a lock cookie.

Yes, I have never actually used a Lightwell and maybe seen one.. ummm... twice.

I have a feeling they're going to have trouble sticking to this to be honest. The only way they can do this is to nerf mana regen like crazy and make raid damage very infrequent and very large.

At the moment raid damage is usually unpredictable and frequent. This means we are in the situation where you use your highest hps spells all the time regardless because you need to prevent people from dieing. Very much the "nail with a sledgehammer" argument.

If they go about this differently and give people comparatively large health pools, then from a pve perspective you would have to punish players for overhealing and using their low cast time high output spells. The only way you can do this is to reduce the amount of available mana and get people into a mindset which is more like "that person has 'enough' health" as opposed to "oh crap that person isn't on full health!". Its going to be interesting to see how they maintain the challenging aspect of healing whilst forcing this healing slowdown as a lot of the threat in current encounters stems from losing people due to insufficient healing/healer reaction time.